The Rise of Office Literature (eBook)

List of figures
Acknowledgements
Note on translations
Introduction: Bureaucratization and office literature
· Clerkwatching
· Bureaucracy, office and clerk: Two perspectives
· Towards an 'office literature'
Part I: Origins - 1810-1850
1. From the desk of Charles Lamb
· 'The Good Clerk, A Character - With some account of "The Complete English Tradesman"' (1811)
· 'The South-Sea House' (1820)
· 'The Superannuated Man' (1825)
2. Moeurs administratives (1825): Jean-Gilbert Ymbert's 'Course in Administration'
· 'Une sorte de Cours d'administration'
· 'Un pays inconnu'
· 'Tout a changé'
3. Physiological literature and the debut of the clerical 'type'
· Sketching with 'Monsieur Prudhomme' and 'Boz'
· 'Encyclopaedic' works
· Parodies: Punch and the physiologies
Part II: Convergences - 1830-1870
4. Characteristic institutions: The office and the novel
· The mirror and the mire
· The rise of the (office) novel
5. 'Secretary to society': Honoré de Balzac
· Melmoth reconcilié (1835)
· Un début dans la vie (1842)
· Les Employés (1844)
6. 'A very little world': Charles Dickens
· A Christmas Carol (1843)
· David Copperfield (1849-50)
· Bleak House (1852-53)
Part III: Metamorphoses - 1860-1900
7. Changes in the office - and in office literature
· The Office
· Office literature
8. The limits of mimesis: Realist innovation in the office
· Anthony Trollope, The Telegraph Girl (1877)
· Joris-Karl Huysmans, À vau-l'eau (1882) and 'La Retraite de Monsieur Bougran' (1888/1964)
9. Out of time into eternity: Office literature's avant-garde conservatism
· Georges Courteline, Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir (1893)
· Arnold Bennett, A Man from the North (1898)
Epilogue: Word and deed

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